AGRICULTURAL DISCONTENT 



the upper Mississippi Valley obtained much of their early training with 

 the old Equity Cooperative Exchange. It was upon the ruins of this last 

 agency that the business program of the Farmers' Union was built. Equity 

 agitated, sometimes successfully, for better grading standards, better ware- 

 housing, and better credit facilities; it brought pressure to bear on educa- 

 tional and governmental agencies to devote more attention to problems of 

 marketing and distribution. 



